Friday, February 28, 2014

When virtue is related to sociobiologically defined human nature then
Friedrich Nietzsche's project of affirming the immoralist is not
valid. By “conforming” to the real structure of human nature one
is not mediocre, one is a natural man conforming to what
human beings actually are. The affirmation of immoralism by Nietzsche was mainly his attempt
to affirm superior men who stand out from the “herd,” but this is
best done by way of evolution, bio-social evolution, and not by
moving outside the bonds of human nature, not by revolution, but by
Ordered Evolution---this relates best to a revitalized conservatism and not anarchy or aristocratic radicalism.

As the intellectual father of modern libertarianism, anarchism,
and nihilism (in spite of Nietzsche), Nietzsche under-emphasized the
biological foundation of much of social behavior, even though he was
against the denaturalization of morality and culture by religion. Perhaps Nietzsche, who was brilliant but all too human, could not avoid being overly defensive due to his own real outsiderhood (he had to publish his own outstanding work which virtually no one read), especially in comparison to the wildly popular Wagner, who became his bitter rival.

We certainly do need superior men and women to create high culture and also to help us survive into the
future, but this is not best done by condemning the rest of humanity.
We find superior men and women by identifying social from
antisocial genius, which can be accomplished, for example, when
psychometric testing is exhumed from political correctness. Let's not confound criminal geniuses with socially positive geniuses. Without
the group and group selection, superior individuals don't contribute
for long, or enhance society, or help us evolve.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Renaissance tradition of art was considered “repugnant”
and a “ghastly mistake” by Braque and Picasso. What colossal
arrogance. Soon other artists were banishing color and form, and
then art became purely abstract. These artists sensed an opportunity
to advance themselves, and I emphasize themselves,
and art dealers on the edge, various hucksters, and art critics were
happy to follow them for the same largely selfish reasons, and
sticking it to the “establishment” was part of the deal.

Society needs to be allowed to
tell the difference between social and anti-social art, just as it
needs to be able to judge anti-social criminals and non-criminals.
It has been suggested that Chimpanzee's create “art” mainly out
of the joy of disruption, they are not interested in the art later.
Modern art is on that same continuum.

Creativity is of course good,
invention is good, but human survival still greatly depends on the
culture it possesses. The cross-cultural center for all cultures
remains human nature, which remains essentially the same as when it
was developed during the million or so years of the Pleistocene.
Group selection remains the primary unit of selection and individual
selection follows after. In general creativity and change need to be
evolutionary not revolutionary. It is the affirmation of what is held sacred that has defined high art throughout human history.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The “court etiquette” of political correctness, which Lind
correctly called cultural Marxism, is unnatural morality, it is a
denaturalization (Nietzsche's term), an ideal severed from reality, it is really a means
to power for the people who promote cultural Marxism. The cure for
this very damaging Machiavellian scheme is the moral naturalism that
rises out of the common sense of sociobiology, which calls reality
reality without disguise, and openly states that the essential
passions and instincts of every people is to preserve themselves. It
is overdo time to stop the revenge-mentality and virtually permanent
resentment that continues to follow the genetic and Darwinian ethos
of the horrors of World War Two. Resentment, as most psychologists would agree, tends to block the
truth and the development of more noble character traits, not only in individuals but
in cultures.

The sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have,
among other things, bravely led the way toward affirming natural differences between
people, even as they are defining a universal human nature that
challenges the political correctness of cultural Marxism. But political correctness is even creeping into these fields as we now consider ethnopluralism as a real and natural way for us all to “get
along,” given our human nature. This is a value system that does
not try to level and tyrannize one people over another but seeks to
advance all people, all ethnic groups, living in their own unique
regions, in their own unique ways, in accord with real human nature.

Then we can all get on with cooperating, or at least competitively
cooperating, in the the sacred mission of evolving toward Godhood,
here and out into the cosmos. Unnatural empires demanding the court etiquette of political correctness inevitably break back down into small states. Revolution is not necessary, our Constitution applauds the separation of powers and states, protected by a light
federalism.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

I agree with the evolutionary psychologists in seeing art as a
special element of our instincts, with the survival value of art
provided by not a single genetic impulse but, as Denis Dutton pointed
out, it is a complicated ensemble of impulses involving response to
the environment, appeals to color and sound, social status, puzzles,
erotic interests, etc. It is almost impossible to make a rational
system out of it.

But some evolutionary thinkers then go on to say that the greatest
art sets us above the instincts that make the art possible,
and that art transcends our animal selves. They would probably say
the same about religion. But this is where the ideal of the
instincts, the Spirit-Will, enters the picture. The activation of
life inwardly by the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood is the zenith of the
instincts, virtually a supermaterial instinct, shaped by outside
evolution, which seeks Godhood as the greatest possible success in
survival and reproduction. This is how both art and religion are activated by a sacred instinct, the zenith of the instincts, which can
affirm the greatest art and religion as an affirmation of the
sacred.

Monday, February 24, 2014

I think Nietzsche's moral naturalism (The Will To Power) made him
the first sociobiologist. But he then seems to have given up on moral
naturalism by affirming the “immoralist,” perhaps because he
cynically thought that men and cultures could never be honest about
their wills to power, when they were in fact only seeking to preserve
themselves---go ahead and lie to advance yourselves, be
Machiavellian, said Nietzsche.

I don't think we have to be that cynical regarding moral
naturalism. Virtues can be openly created to help preserve a people
and a culture, the findings of sociobiology can be affirmed, we don't
need to be Machiavellian about it, we don't need to affirm the
immoralist. But we can be skeptical of any “humaneness” (eg.
cultural Marxism), as Nietzsche was, which is disguising the will to
power. We can be moralists if we affirm moral naturalism, which naturally seeks success in survival and reproduction.

How can we do this? Better to affirm the naturalism of
people living in their own regions and states, in accord with real human nature, where they don't need
to be immoral in disguising the real virtues of preserving
themselves. Ethnopluralism is one way, because in our crowded world
today, imperialism is soon cut down to size, it doesn’t preserve
any people for long. Then we can continue materially and super-materially
evolving to Godhood in our own unique ways, which is where religion enters the realm of
moral naturalism. We are capable of cooperative competition as we evolve, it is the morally natural way to save our planet and
ourselves. People are soon going to reject these schemes which in fact deny human nature and nature itself for the secret purpose of advancing themselves.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

In its most sacred valuations, the Church turns its back on the
material world and seeks the God Within, or the Father Within, which can
only be reached through non-attachment or blocking material desires
and passions in the material world. Given the strong and essential drives of
human nature, the institutions of the Church, which grew up long after
the martyrdom of Jesus Christ, often made valiant and even brilliant attempts to
rationalize living in the world (think of Aquinas), but the sacred base of complete non-attachment to reproduction, political philosophy, etc.,
is the central message of Jesus Christ, which is not unlike Buddha's message to attain nirvana---and this is also seen at the most sacred base of all the
revealed religions.

When the world is religiously forsaken by human beings in its most sacred religious valuations the world declines. A reaffirmation of this
sacred non-attachment by the Church is not the solution to the
suicide of the West, it is part of the problem. Is the solution to
reject the Church, as so many have done? The solution is to affirm
the Twofold Path in which the Evolutionary Outward Path fulfills and transforms the
Involutionary Inward Path to the Father Within, which was a symbolic-experience of the Godhood reached by evolving in the
material world to supermaterial Godhood. This requires
sociobiological involvement and engagement with the world. This is an affirmation of theological materialism, this is not a call to destroy the law and
the prophets but to fulfill them---this is evolution not revolution.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

What we have been able to discern of natural law or the laws of
nature has often defined natural rights. Religions have said natural laws
are based on the eternal laws of God, but man has been arrogant in
assuming we fully know the eternal laws. Our view of nature has
rightly changed as we have learned more about nature---religion has
usually followed this change, but slowly. Our religions and cultures
should at least harmonize with natural law or the laws of nature. If we are philosophically honest about the basics of theological materialism, the
laws of nature precede both religious law and civil law. The real
culture war is between natural law versus religions and cultures which
do not harmonize with natural law.

Modern cultures have gone against the natural law in trying to
behaviorally program-in such things as cultural Marxism, which
requires a completely unnatural egalitarianism. And religions have
centered on the Involutionary Inward Path to the God Within or Father
Within---to experience this requires blocking or non-attachment to natural drives
inherent in human nature and natural law. Cultural Marxism needs to
move toward some form of ethnopluralism and localism, with a light protecting
federalism, and the religious Inward Path needs to proceed to include the
Evolutionary Outward Path of our material and supermaterial evolution
to the real Godhood first symbolically experienced inwardly. This can help bring our religions and cultures more in harmony with natural law and natural health.

Friday, February 21, 2014

The transcendent is understood here as the supermaterial zenith of
material evolution. This can heal the split between religion and
science. The Spirit-Will is retained as the supermaterial inward
activation of material life to evolve toward Godhood, shaped by
outside evolution. With few exceptions the general trend in
evolution has been for environments to become more complex, more
intelligent, which can be seen religiously and philosophically as
becoming more true, beautiful and good. This has not been only random
evolution.

This gives a goal to the goal-less nihilism that followed
Nietzsche, with postmodernism seeing only power drives and will and
relativity, with no goals and no real meaning to life. This is not
religion and science merely compromising, this is bringing religious
evolution in harmony with natural law, with the goal of attaining
Godhood. Science is this way connected to religion in nature,
containing the Spirit-Will-To Godhood within itself urging us toward
Godhood, shaped by Darwin's outside evolution, which is indeed is ultimate success in survival and reproduction.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Universalism has been exaggerated at the expense of the local,
often leading to civil strife, exploitation, imperialism, and war.
Religion was probably the first to promote universalism, and politics
followed, which has caused much suffering and the
loss of local variety, even though universalism has typically claimed to be the only way for us "all to get along."

The universal is real but it needs to be put in its place, second
to localism. We are universal Homo-sapiens and not mutually
infertile species because of past colonization and admixture of
different ethnic groups, but our geographical differences and local ethnic genetic adaptations from climate, etc., remain strong.

Human nature remains essentially local in that we remain
kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among
other local things, with group-selection as the primary unit of
selection. These local differences are universal and have been with
us for thousands of years since hunter-gatherer times.

Universalism has been exploited by those who benefit, at least
temporarily, from breaking up local bonds. Religion, politics and
globalism in business have done this. Even conservative's have split
between followers of the universalism of Leo Strauss (neoconservatives) and the
localism of Russell Kirk (paleoconservatives).

Localism, or ethnopluralism, is the natural answer to exaggerated
universalism. This can be affirmed by honest anthropology, political
philosophy and religion. The natural separation of powers, small
states, even ethnostates, remains the rational and instinctive best
choice, which can even be accomplished in democratic republics, with a
light protecting federalism. It does seem that more scholars, religious leaders,
philosophers, politicians are now gradually rising and actively affirming localism, across the world.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Was restoring moral naturalism the theme of the Enlightenment or
was it more a restoring of Socratic reason as the new God? Moral
naturalism was more clearly a theme with Darwin and Nietzsche. But
then people began to sever ideas and morals from reality, with
modern political lies, etc., advanced to advance a person or a group---which is,
I suppose, a twisted form of naturalism. Can we get back to real
moral naturalism?

When we present the Evolutionary Outward Path to the traditions of
the Involutionary Inward Path religions this is seen as heresy, it
seems to go against what we have been exclusively taught as the
Inward Path to the God Within, the Father Within. The Inward Path
moves against moral naturalism because it blocks or unattaches us
from material desires and passions, unless we see the Inward Path as
a symbolic-experience of the Godhood reached by material and
supermaterial evolution in the Outward Path. The fact that the
Inward Path may advance the priest class is the transvalued
connection with naturalism here.

The French have generally thought that a crisis has to reach its
paroxysm and only then can it be resolved, which seems to affirm
revolution rather than reform or conservatism. Is revolution the only means of real
change? Perhaps the paroxysm of becoming extinct as other animals on
earth are becoming extinct will help return us to moral naturalism.
I agree with Cattell in thinking of revolution and war as an angry
person turning over the chess table, it is almost always negative,
progress stops until the war is ended, then the chess game of
civilization and evolution can begin again. We need very long periods of order
and research to advance ourselves forward in evolution toward
Godhood. It is through Revitalized Conservatism and Ordered Evolution
that the Twofold Path can best come forward, come what may.

Monday, February 17, 2014

I tend to like Camille Paglia's straight-shooting but I don't agree with her recently calling Eminem a great artist
for the way he does not repress sex, violence and other exuberant
passions in his white version of black rap art. Paglia believes,
like Freud, that the pagan exists beneath our repressed
Judeo-Christian culture and she champions art which celebrates the
pagan, or her interpretation of paganism, as she praised Madonna a
few decades ago. That being said, our
culture does repress many of the drives and instincts of real human
nature and one can see why white Eminem would choose black rap as a means of
more open expression.

There is also a connection
here with Paglia's public
homosexuality, although I don't really like to reach into the private
sexual preferences of anyone. Homosexuality is in essence the sexual preference for
achieving orgasm with the same-gender, which is a sexual activity distant from the
central survival and reproductive drives that monopolize real human
nature. Orgasm relates only to a part of the sexual mechanics of
reproduction and social bonding, but when this same-gender sexual preference for orgasm
is elevated and promoted as a whole life style it can then block or
subvert the larger basic elements of human nature, reducing their
importance and corrupting human behavior.

Human nature developed many
thousands of years ago and even the smallest change in human nature
and our DNA structure, for example, in our immune system, takes
hundreds of thousands of years. We remain kin-centered, gender
defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical,
ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things,with
group-selection as the primary unit of selection. Exclusively
promoting sexuality or violence or androgyny or homosexuality can
actually repress real human nature. Let's have artists---and
critics--- who express and don't repress more of real
whole human nature. This expression might actually exhume a more classic kind of
evolutionary realism related to more traditional human nature and culture.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

The material world is not the prince of darkness, Satan, which
traditional religions essentially believe. This has helped cause the
Great Spiritual Blockade against our material and supermaterial
evolution to Godhood.

The problem seems to come from confounding the Outward Path with
the Inward Path. The Involutionary Inward Path of traditional
religions seeks the God Within, the Father Within, virtually
exclusively among serious followers. Most of the values and morals
of religion come from this goal of reaching the Inward God, which
requires blocking all material desires, or becoming completely
unattached to them. This is how the material world became Satan and
the prince of darkness, blocking the way to our evolution to Godhood.

It is the Evolutionary Outward Path of material and supermaterial
evolution which leads to real Godhood, not the symbolic-experience
of the Father Within of the Inward Path, however blissful it is. But rather than playing religious tit
for tat, an eye for an eye, and making the Inward Path a
trans-valued prince of darkness (as modern secularists seem to have done), we can affirm the Twofold Path, because the Inward Path understanding of God leads to the Outward
Path sacred goal of evolving to Godhood in the cosmos, by way of material and supermaterial evolution. The prince of darkness is
not necessary in the Twofold Path.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

When writers on the economy speak of the forces of globalization
and new technology, they almost never mention that nations rise to
power by protecting their manufacturing base and decline when they accept
so-called “free trade.” We have seen the deindustralization of
America, with thousands of U.S. factories lost, with 230 million
white collar jobs projected to be eliminated or transformed,
representing trillions in income. Along with that we have had 30 to
40 million legal and illegal immigrants entering the country as a
huge increase in the labor force. And who has benefit from this
economic destruction of America? The top one percent have seen a
huge growth in profits, while the average U.S. family has not had a
raise for 40 years. The new jobs created are $15-an-hour service
jobs usually filled by legal and illegal immigrants.

What can we do about the destruction of America? We can begin by
doing what our Founders did (Hamilton, Madison, Lincoln), and impose a
border tax on all goods entering the county, as China now does to us,
and we can use the hundreds of billions of dollars from that to cut
the taxes on American manufacturing which will help our factories
rise from the dead. Then we can have a moratorium on all immigration
into this country. As to the red state and blue state cross-purposes
that are also tearing us apart, along with the variety of
ethnicities and cultures that will continue to separate our citizens
into warring factions no matter how much we pursue equality, we need
to take seriously the movements of separation which are now
instinctively rising across the world, including in the United
States. This is completely natural and in accord with real human
nature. Let it happen. We can embrace a healthy ethnopluralism in our
regions and states, which can even be in accord with the separation
of powers of our Constitution. Things are moving this way in any
case and we need to avoid civil war which hurts everyone. We must eventually face real human nature and the social structures that work in harmony with real human nature.

With our manufacturing protected, with our borders protected, and
with people allowed to seek out their own kind, even their own
languages, in their own regions and states, our Republic can begin to
rise again on a firm foundation, with cooperative competition allowed. This is not libertarian, this is
not progressive liberalism, this is not neoconservatism, this is not
fascism, this is economic nationalism and ethnopluralism within our
Republic. In other words, this is Revitalized Conservatism.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Enlightenment thinkers from the seventeenth century on believed
that reason, logic and experiment could fully explain everything in
life and “spiritual” explanations for life did not really exist.
This position was made easier because of the transcendental,
nonmaterial, definitions of God and Spirit.

Since the Enlightenment few people have had the courage to claim
some sort of internal direction. In our time Ken Wilber and Francis
Heylighen are two thinkers who have courage in discussing direction
in evolution. Wilber said, evolution is “the opposite of chance or
randomness in the universe. It's evidence of a force that is pursuing
against randomness in the universe... This is an extraordinary driven
process.” Francis Heylighen wrote “...it is assumed that
evolution is largely unpredictable and contingent on a host of
uncontrollable factors, which may steer its course in any of an
infinite number of directions. However, it is noted that directions
in which complexity increases are generally preferred...Still, it can
happen that systems evolve towards a simpler organization, although
this seems rare. It is most likely to occur when the system enters a
simpler environment, as when an organism becomes an internal parasite
or moves back from the land to the water, but these are obviously
unusual examples which go against the general trend of environments
becoming more complex.”

Religion does not need to have a problem with evolution, if the
Spirit-Will is understood as activating life from within while life
is shaped outwardly by Darwin's evolution. The activating internal
Spirit-Will needs to be inserted into the outward evolutionary dynamic. Evolution is not
diminished when life is activated by the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood,
although randomness can still occur. Secular
views of life have no real sacred goals to life and evolution other
than successful survival and reproduction, which suggests a
Will-To-Power driving everything rather than the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood goal
for evolution.

The traditional Involutionary Inward Path is the transcendental
view of God and Spirit, this is nonmaterial abstraction, a word, an
idea, a Logos, with no material or supermaterial objecthood, it is an
experience of bliss after strict ascetic discipline in becoming
unattached to the forces of life. The Evolutionary Outward Path
understands this Logos as an internal symbolic-experience of the real
Godhood which is reached by evolution, a material-supermaterial evolution
that is activated by the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood.

Ironically it is pagans who saw nature and the material world as
Divine and traditional religions which tended to deny divinity to the
material world. Pagans would not necessarily be at war with science,
and religion does not need to be either, if the Spirit-Will is
understood as activating life from within while life is shaped
outwardly by Darwin's evolution.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Religion and philosophy have often defined ideas that are opposed
to the senses, or opposed to nature, ideas “severed from reality”
(“The Will to Power,” Nietzsche). Was this “civilizing” done
to reduce the survival damage of aggression, or was it as Nietzsche
thought, a way for the weaker to weaken the strong? Even scientists
can look down their noses at natural drives and passions while almost
exclusively valuing the rational scientific mind, although
sociobiology has been looking more attentively at natural human
nature.

What was needed was an ordering of the natural passions and
drives of evolution and not a blocking or nonattachment to them, not a
making evil of nature, or merely calling natural passions irrational.
Religion and philosophy insisted on reaching the God Within of the
Inward Path, or the highest good of philosophy, and they tended to block the
natural drives, or advocated becoming unattached to them so as to
experience the Father Within, or the highest good. This made actual
natural compassion and love secondary to the needs of reaching the
God Within, one could more easily feel compassion because one was
emotionally unattached to the natural passions of reproduction, competition, and
life in general.

Ordered Evolution in the Outward Path is the authentic answer to
the psychology of the Inward Path values and morals---but the Inward Path can
be retained as the symbolic-experience of the Godhood reached by
material and supermaterial evolution in the Outward Path. We evolve
to Godhood in nature not by blocking nature or becoming unattached to
natural drives, our natural drives can be consciously directed toward
higher evolution to real Godhood. God has been too much associated
with the opposite of life and the depreciation of nature, a
“denaturalisation” has taken place. We need a “moral
naturalism,” but contrary to Nietzsche, one that sees altruism as
authentically related to helping the group and therefore the
individual survive, prosper, and most importantly: evolve.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

It is of course considered sacrilegious and heretical to state it, but the
human being who experiences the blissful condition of nirvana, or the
God-Within, or the Father Within (the Beatific Vision), or in the
more modern terms of Ken Wilber, the person who experiences
transrational or Universal Consciousness, is not the highest model
and goal for humanity. In stark terms, this blissful condition is a
high category of hedonism hypertrophied and experienced by freeing
the body and mind of all passion, and all material desires, which is no easy task.

What redeems this high spiritual hedonism? Seeing or
understanding this blissful state as the symbolic-experience of the
real Godhood reached by material and supermaterial evolution. Reaching Godhood
requiresmaterial passions
and desires, but passions and desires guided by Ordered Evolution toward continually advancing
truth, beauty, goodness, intelligence, complexity, character and proportion, all evolving toward the zenith of these values
and virtues, which is Godhood.

In the Twofold Path the
blissful symbolic-experience of the Father Within is the highest
destination of the Involutionary Inward Path, but real Godhood in
evolution by way of the Evolutionary Outward Path is the highest model for future development toward
Godhood.

Friday, February 07, 2014

Nietzsche's project could be understood in terms of what is
defined here as the Twofold Path, only Nietzsche wanted to extirpate,
throw out, the Involutionary Inward Path because he saw it as the
opposite of nature, which it is. The Inward Path to the Father
Within promotes unnatural values because it blocks the natural
instincts and desires so as to experience the bliss of desirelessness
in the symbolic-experience of the Father Within.

But Nietzsche might have approved of the Evolutionary Outward Path
because it brings back “moral naturalism,” as seen in the
material and supermaterail evolution to real Godhood. Nietzsche saw
a vitalistic will-to-power in nature with no religions goal whereas the Outward Path sees the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which is shaped on the outside by natural
evolution.

Also Nietzsche did not equate moral naturalism with the Inward
Path symbolic-experience of the Outward Path Godhood reached through
evolution. The result: Nietzsche had to become a radical, an
anti-Christ, a revolutionary, and even a moral relativist, which
eventually fathered postmodern philosophers and many other modern cultural creations---the rejection of moral art for example.

The Twofold Path calls for Ordered Evolution in harmony with a
Revitalized Conservatism. The God of the Inward Path is retained as
a forebearer of real Godhood reached in the Outward Path of material
and supermaterial evolution. Moral naturalism this way rises from the
Great Spiritual Blockade without throwing religion out. But the
Sacred goal is essentially not to save Nietzsche but to save our
evolution to real Godhood.

Thursday, February 06, 2014

The central lesson of Christianity is not “unconditional love”
as we are often told, the central message is the call to reach the
Father Within, through the ascetic discipline of stopping or blocking
all material desires. As in Buddhism, non-attachment to all things
in the world is necessary to attain the state of the God Within.
Affirming the poor was a value derived from this nonmaterial prospective, because
for Jesus material things were not the path to the Father
Within---compassion also came from this perspective. This is the way
of the Involutionary Inward Path to the symbolic-bliss-experience of
the Father Within, but we require the Evolutionary Outward Path to
reach real Godhood.

The Evolutionary Outward Path unblocks the Great Spiritual Blockade against our material and supermaterial evolution to the
Godhood first seen in the Inward Path. This is not a rejection of
the Inward Path, this is the application of the Twofold Path, one
working with the other. Hunter- Gatherers saw nature as more
harmonious than Farmers who had to contend more with nature, and
their religion's reflected the differences. In human history the
manifestations of religion have changed, but the
Spirit-Will-To-Godhood does not change. We now can see our evolution
to real Godhood, activated by the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood. This dynamic was unconscious for a long time, but
it is now conscious and we can aid in our evolution to Godhood.

Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Is music a “balance” of intellect and emotion? Music seems to
be an attempt to order emotions. Emotions come from the ancient
dominant part of the brain system. The intellect or neocortex is
newer and it tries to understand ancient emotions. But to dominate
emotions with intellect? It's more the intellect harmonizing with
emotions, like a jockey riding a horse, only this horse is not really
broken to the will of the rider-intellect, even if we are arrogant
enough to think so.

But something is missing from intellect and emotion, and it is the
activation of material life by the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood. Life is
shaped by outside evolution and also activated inside by the
Spirit-Will-To Godhood. Is the path to the Sacred in art to harmonize all three: emotion, intellect and the
Spirit-Will, but then to concede leadership to the
Spirit-Will-To-Godhood? I suppose it is the intellect that
harmonizes and understands it all this way, which does make the intellect
a powerful element in this dynamic. But it is an affirmation by the intellect more than control.

Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Altruism is not only the preeminence of the "other," and egotism is
not only the preeminence of the ego or the individual, as Nietzsche seemed
to suggest, altruism is also a natural instinct, a biological
conscience. Egoism is not purer as a natural instinct, and altruism is
not less authentic. Human nature and human social life are a
not-always-harmonious mix of individual and group selection, with
group selection tending to be the final arbitrator of success (see E.O.Wilson's latest).

Sometimes it seem as if at least part of Nietzsche's motive is to extirpate all
guilt in regard to the treatment of others. Perhaps Nietzsche keenly felt the drag of convention rejecting
his brilliant work, especially in comparison to Wagner. As long
as we naturally need others to survive and prosper than “guilt”
about our behavior toward others will be a check on our egotism, and this is as natural and biological an instinct as egotism, so getting rid of all guilt as Nietzsche and later Freud seemed to advocate may not be all that healthy.

As considered here recently, we do need to find a way for
real individual genius to have wide freedom to create, but we can affirm genius not
by holding up egoism as the only authentic natural instinct in man---society needs to have the right to distinguish between the work of
anti-social criminal genius and the work of socially healthy genius.
George Dumezil dug deeply examining the origins
of the conflict between the different social castes in early human
culture, but I, for one, think the social psychologist and sociobiologist
Raymond Cattell updated and upgraded this subject regarding individual genius and group survival and reproduction, with an eye toward still
progressing and evolving. Nietzsche and Freud and then their postmodern followers seem too selfish.

Sunday, February 02, 2014

Many attempts have been made to analyze the psychological
discontent of modern and postmodern civilization, from Nietzsche to
Freud, Jung, Marcuse, and modern Christian approaches, among others.
Nietzsche's approach was mainly to bring naturalism back to values
and morality and stop blocking the healthy instincts, which he believed
Christianity did, and especially to affirm the will to power of
exceptional individuals, or the “creators of values.” Freud took
this basic anti-christian Nietzschean perspective but changed the
dynamics from the power motive to the sexual motive, which he
believed needed to be set free since he believed its repression was
making people neurotic. Jung found God in the human unconscious as a
grand archetype and said we would be healthy when we could integrate
the God archetype of the unconscious into the rest of our conscious
and unconscious lives. Marcuse applied Freud’s view of sexual
repression to conservative cultural life, helping to create the
cultural Marxism of political correctness. And Christian defenders
seek to transcend human nature and barbaric human instincts, claiming
that doing so is both divine law and natural law.

All of these approaches claimed that their way would
help solve the discontent of our civilization. While each of these
approaches had something to offer in trying to make civilization
healthier---and some did damage to us (see Chilton Williamson, Chronicles, January 2014)---none of these approaches took full
account of the great anchor of biology and sociobiology in human nature
and culture. Actual life and death describe good and evil in the
most basic way. Evolution defines progress. Our divinity has to be
materially and supermaterially evolved to. We are not free to reject
life and biology accept in inauthentic ways, our freedom is confined
to circumscribed choices within our biology and environment. We are
discontented mainly because we have falsely and in-authentically tried
to escape what we actually are in the world. We are evolving in the
world and in the cosmos, perhaps in a spiral direction, toward Godhood,
shaped by natural selection and evolution. We can make conscious the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which activates life toward Godhood, shaped by outside evolution, and we can
adjust ourselves and our civilization accordingly. This will bring us as much
authentic contentment as is real in the world.

Revolution is not necessary, but the revitalization of tradition
is necessary with the Twofold Path. The Inward God of
Christianity---and traditional religions---was the first
symbolic-experience of the real Godhood which can be reached through
material and supermaterial evolution. The Involutionary Inward Path
brings us to the Father Within of Christ (also of the Hindu
tradition), after applying the ascetic discipline of blocking all
desires to experience the God Within. But it is the Evolutionary Outward
Path which brings us to real Godhood by way of evolution in the cosmos. The sacred base so necessary for civilization is this way reapplied.

Saturday, February 01, 2014

The old Western and even Biblical idea of linear progress to God seems to somewhat fit with the idea of material and supermaterial
upward evolution toward Godhood. The more Eastern idea of “cycles”
seems less important from this perspective. There is also no “first
cause” in this worldview, only endless, linear, spiral evolution
toward Godhood, with stops and starts along the way. Life moves
upward in evolution toward Godhood, shaped by selection and
evolution, and activated by the Spirit-Will-To- Godhood. This
perspective is not fully accepted by either religion or science---so
it could be considered a balance between the two.

Nietzsche suggested that Becoming is a huge ring. But evolution
appears to be more a constant, upward, spiral, but linear evolution, for
example, from the simple to the complex, with no end in sight other than continual levels of higher evolution. How do these cosmic symbols
relate to values and morality? A relativity of values does not seem to fit here. Linear evolution does not assign all
parts with equal relative value, as the ring symbol seems to do with
its eternal return. The old trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty
are ranked higher in material and supermaterial evolution than, for
example, illusion or ugliness, with Godhood as the zenith of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

“All modern political teachings are secularized theological concepts” (Carl Schmitt)

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." Edmund Burke

“The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau

“...For if America is to endure as a nation, her peoples are going to need the freedom to live differently and the space to live apart, according to their irreconcilable beliefs...”

“...Can we all just get along?” asked Rodney King during the Los Angeles riot of 1992. Well, if we can’t, we can at least dwell apart...After all, it’s a big country. ”

Patrick J. Buchanan

"... New faiths have to be grafted upon old ones. All great teachers have built upon the past traditions of the race. They have to come to lead. They alter and adapt the Eternal Ancient Wisdom to the peculiar needs of that race, to the particular Message which that race is destined to leave for humanity. So also the Lord Zoroaster found a certain mass of tradition in Iran and the Message He gave to this branch of the human race was based upon what they had inherited from a dim and distant past..."

http://www.farvardyn.com/zoroaster.php

Decentralize the world to save the world

Truth is one, paths are many

"He who hath grown wise concerning old origins, lo, he will at last seek after the fountains of the future and new origins." (Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra")

"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists" – Joseph de Maistre

"Far from being the ultimate measure of all things, man can only realize himself in reaching beyond himself."

(from "Populorum Progressio," Pope Paul VI)

"What is enclosed in the sanctuary of the arcanaIs disclosed in the testimony of phenomena."

- Ibn ‘Ata’illah

"The universe is a machine for making gods." Bergson

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” Rilke

"Things change because they are not complete." St. Thomas Aquinas

"All culture arises out of religion. When religious faith decays, culture must decline, though often seeming to flourish for a space of time after the religion which has nourished it has fallen into disbelief... no cultured person should remain indifferent to the erosion of apprehension of the transcendent." Russell Kirk, Eliot and His Age

Fundamentalists claim to be returning to an original Christianity based on biblical texts, seemingly unaware that as early as the third century, Christian scholars such as Origen were arguing that the scriptures, at a time when the New Testament was still not in its final form, needed to be interpreted allegorically rather than literally. Who are the traditionalists here? — Charles Freeman

“A writer’s goal is to fight the lie.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new” Machiavelli

“God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.”

Alfred Adler

Believe one who has tried: You shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in books. The trees and the rocks will teach you what you cannot hear from the masters.

-Bernard of Clairvaux

If I have the least bit of knowledgeI will follow the great Way aloneand fear nothing but being sidetracked.The great Way is simplebut people delight in complexity.Tao Te Ching, 53.

"What is culture? The word itself comes from “cultus” or cult and has intrinsic religious dimensions. Culture, strictly speaking, refers to all the aspects of daily life that bear the imprint of society’s religious center: tools, architecture, clothing, as well as art, literature, and music. From this perspective, culture refers to the sanctification of daily life.”

Arthur Verluis

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

—Euclid

According to Aristotle, nature itself drives toward the good.

"That by which we fall is that by which we rise."Tantric saying

Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." Niels Bohr

"Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any time. An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it has flowed in the channel the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return to its old bed."[Wotan, C.G. Jung]

“A theory is more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premise, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended its range of applicability…”-Einstein

“To Know the Absolute is to Be the Absolute.” Bede Griffiths

To define is not to know, to be is to know. To be or not to be is indeed the question. KLA

My teachings are very easy to understand and to practice; yet there is no one in the world who is able either to understand or to practice them. This is because my teachings have an originating principle and arise from an integrated system. This is not understood, so I am unknown.

~ Lao Tzu

Take refuge in the law of evolution.

It is possible to learn the outer steps that must be accomplished in a rite without learning the inner meanings that are the keys to the sacred traditions. Each seeker must therefore open his heart to the Great Mystery as he tries to follow the sacred way, because the perfect accomplishment of the outer steps of a rite will be worth nothing without the knowledge of the inner meanings.

Patience is a tree—Its roots may be bitter (to eat),but its fruit is the sweetest of sweet.

-African proverb

"T.S. Eliot pointed out that an artist creates his own "school" of predecessors that nobody noticed had anything in common before."

Steve Sailer

There is no visible thing, in the world, more worthy to serve as a symbol of God than the sun,which illuminates with visible life, first itself,then all the celestial and mundane bodies.- DANTE

We can only accommodate the changing demographics of the nation and the world if we hold fast to the rights and independence of the states and of local rule. Otherwise the always changing demographics may vote the laws and the Constitution out of existence, and the freedom to evolve will be lost. KLA

Every human being is born to develop and evolve on the high path to future Godhood for their descendants, and the Evolutionary Christian Church is the means to activate that potential. KLA

"Accept the truth, whatever its sources."Moses Maimonides

"Every truth – no matter who speaks it – is from the Holy Spirit."(omne verum a quocumque dicatur a Spiritu Sancto est) (St Thomas Aquinas)

It is not words or numbers or the order of words and numbers that govern the Kosmos, it is the Objects that the words and numbers define which govern the Kosmos. (KLA)

Materia and energy are INTERTWINED with time in physics. So there can not be any time before materia and energy, neither can we say that materia and energy are eternal as if there was some kind of meta-time, because there is no such thing. And if the supernatural does exist, it is natural. There is no point in talking of something being supernatural. If something does exist IT IS PART OF NATURE, part of Ahura.

Alexander Bard

“The purer the person or the thing is, the quicker the world will violate and destroy it.” Dowson